Democratic Party of Bulgaria

The Democratic Party (DP) is a Christian democratic political party in Bulgaria which was founded in 1896 by Petko Karavelov. The party broke away from the Liberal Party, and it won a landslide victory in the 1908 elections, leading to DP leader Aleksandar Malinov becoming Prime Minister. Malinov returned to serve as Prime Minister in 1918 with the goal of negotiating an armistice towards the end of World War I. During the 1920s, the DP became rivals with the agrarian BZNS party. After World War II, the DP did not join the Fatherland Front, and it dissolved during communist rule. It was re-founded in 1990, and it became a minor center-right party.